Wednesday, November 30, 2016

My review:
This was a fun read and loved the story. This is set in White Cliff Bay
and at Christmas time, which sounds beautiful there. Penny loves her
home which is a cute cottage and twinkling fairy lights. She decides to
rent out the annex of her house to a father and his teen daughter. He
starts out as a grumpy person but warms up to Penny. She is an ice
carver and befriends his daughter and teaches her how to ice carve.
Penny and Henry end up with a strong connection and want to see where it
will go. Loved the ice carving they did and the competitions. The love
story was great also and shows how important communication is. I
received this from NetGalley for a review.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Christmas Romance short novel
Published
November 8th 2016
by Loveswept
Rating: 4 stars

My Review

This was a quick and fun read. It's a short novel set in Seaside, North
Carolina, where a military base is and the male main character is
at.Allison has been single for quite a while. She seems to always date
losers. Her mom is a psychiatrist, who always finds fault with all the
men Allison dates. If she doesn't date then her family gives her a hard
time and if she is dating then the guy is all wrong. She can't win. At a
charity ball she buys a man to be her pretend boyfriend and is name is
Troy and a military man. So they ave pretend dates to get to know each
other and the sexual tension builds up and feelings start coming into
play. This was a great story and I received it from NetGalley for a
review.

Monday, November 28, 2016

My thoughts:
This was a fun and quick read. Ava and Deb are best friends from London.
They got Paris to help Ava forget about her cheating boyfriend and Deb
thinks that her stepdad is cheating on her mom. They meet up with 2
frenchmen and become friends and spend the week with them. Deb and Ava
do some sleuthing to find out if the stepdad is cheating. Ava's mom is a
control freak and thinks she knows what her daughter should be doing
with her life. Ava ends up falling for Juliene and helps him deal with
missing his sister and helping him with his photography. I really
enjoyed the characters. The only thing I hated in this book and the
reason that I only gave this 3 stars is the character using the word
Totes in about every other sentence. I thought maybe it was an
expression that hey use in London but why didn't Ava ever say it, not
even once. So I felt it was overused and 3/4 of the way through the book
I cringed every time it was used. I received this from NetGalley for a
review.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

My review:
This was a cute and fun read. Debbie Macomber wrote another great
Christmas book. Julia has a neighbor who is like Ebenezer. She writes a
blog and decides to do a 12 Days of Christmas challenge to kill him with
kindness. He lives across the hall from her in their apartment. Every
morning they leave at the same time for work and she always smiles and
says hi but he is not friendly. So she goes out of her way and even buys
him coffee, bakes him cookies, all of which he declines. After a while
though he starts smiling and being nice. They start having feelings for
each other til he finds out about the blog. Being hurt in the past he
feels used again and can't seem to forgive her. I received this from NetGalley for a review.

Friday, November 25, 2016

My Review:
This was a quick and fun read. The ending was perfect!! Mandy Reese is a
woman who believes in Santa because she saw him when she was 8 years
old. She now works in a Christmas store in her home town of Tall Pines
in southern California, in the mountains. Jake arrives in town to
convince the town to build a Regal Hotel. He meets Mandy when he stops
at the store. They start seeing each other. He eventually finds out she
has seen Santa but he doesn't believe her. They fall in love but he is
still skeptical. He isn't sure if they can make it work with his job and
she doesn't know if she can be with someone who doesn't believe in her.
I loved all the characters in the book but the ending is what made it a
5 star rating for me.

My Review:This was a quick and fun
read. Cat O'Connor is an ex cop and works for her spoiled self centered
sister who is an actress. Her sister treats her like a servant instead
of a sister. Chloe works on a soap opera and then she gets an
opportunity for an audition for a chance of a lifetime role.Cat and
Chloe are twins and so they pretend to be each other and it works great
until someone is trying to kill Chloe. Now Grayson is brought in under
cover as a soap actor to find out what is going on. As they go to the
town Christmas more things happen and is someone really after Chloe or
are they after Cat. This also has a cute love story going. I received
this from Net Galley for a review.

My Review:
I did enjoy the book but I didn't LOVE it! I got bored halfway through the book and then it picked up again. Cath wants to be a baker and own her own shop but her parents forbid it and says she has to marry the king, boring. She meets Jest and falls for him instead. A lot of Alice in Wonderland in here but instead of Alice you are dealing with Cath, who is supposed to be the Queen of Hearts. I hated her mother and Margaret, who has a holier than thou attitude. The King is sooo boring I would run for the hills lol.
Marissa Meyer is a great storyteller but I like the Lunar Chronicles a lot better.